Brian Shaw

Brian Shaw, CAPP is a Practice Builder for Kimley-Horn’s California team in Oakland. He supports the California region, bringing his knowledge and expertise in parking, mobility and transportation management to their Transportation team. After spending most of his career in higher education, he now is working with a firm with a strong reputation and a deep bench of services that will allow him to help support you and your upcoming projects!
Brian has spent his over 25-year career fostering commuter travel choices and innovations in parking management. Brian has worked primarily in higher education at some of the leading research institutions across the United States including Emory, the University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford.
Brian served on the board of International Parking and Mobility Institute (IPMI) from 2014-20. He co-chaired IPMI’s Sustainability Committee, while serving on the Education Development Committee and Professional Recognition Task Force. He has developed a Transportation Demand Management course series for IPMI and the Green Building Council to help educate non-practitioners. Brian also contributed to IPMI’s A Guide to Parking, the first parking industry textbook, and IPMI’s “Introduction to Parking” web course.
Brian served as the Secretary on the board of the California Mobility and Parking Association (CMPA) during 2024.
Brian is a Certified Administrator of Public Parking (CAPP) with IPMI. He is the 2021 recipient of the James M. Hunnicutt Industry Professional of the Year award from IPMI. The department he led, Stanford Transportation, won the 2021 Parking Organization of the Year award from IPMI. He is also a frequent contributor to Parking & Mobility, IPMI’s monthly magazine as well as the IPMI Blog. Brian has presented at IPMI, CMPA, PIPTA, ACT, NACUBO and was featured on The Parking Podcast in October 2019. He helped found transportation conferences for the PAC-12, Ivy + and Bay Area universities.